Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-30

senatog Morrill,, u Vermont has jnsE
pslhissAsed an interesting book emitted
I. sci Cosnscigusnes a Noted Per
sons II i 4 book neW 20 the pa1blie,
and contains some unique and inter-
esrf1g anecdotes q men famous u all
countries and AL ages. Here are sozne
specimen bricks.
Sapoleonr once said. q There i no
thing II var J cannot do with rny oNn
hands. After al that have done. be
exeiaimed one day, A. i 70 stop the
mouth 81 4 d1tterer. " II u anything
compared with what Christ has done p
Re told Las Casas that i Was after
storn1sng the bridge az Lodi :. that be
first conceived he was 70 do great
thing said Sapoleou one day,
when returning from parade = Bon
rienne. do you hear those acci4mations
which stiM continued They are as
sweet 20 me ns the voice Of Josephine. 2
Continued success made Napole0a ex-
cessfFefy vain. A courtier once said
that God made Napoleon. and rest-
ed Bonaparte, II i said, did not think
the utterance blzsphemous, nor even
exaggerated.
John 9. SAKE, one Of the wiftiest Of
modern poets, met q friend some years
ago Just a. he vas coming out 0l the
sanctuIa q the Boston Post. :. have
Just left, said be, with Colonel
Greene the finest sonnet that has been
written since the days Of Sir John
Sneklingr
james Russell Lowell, in his younger
days, gave utteFance 20 the following:
Z. There's Lowell, who's striving Par
nassus % climb.
With a whole bale Of isms tied together
with rhyme:
He might get ON alone, spite Of BRAN
bles and b0ulders,
But he can't with that bundle he has
on his shoulders.
The top Of the hill be viii ne'eT come
nigh reaching
Till he learns the distinction between
singing and preaching.
His Tyre has some chords that would
ring pretty well.
But he would rather by half make a
drum Of the shell,
And rattle away till he's as old as Me-
thusaiem,
At the head Of a march 70 the last New
Jerusalem"
that when a young man he met and
sat next TO him at dinner, when the
conversation turned upon the subject
Of Mirabeau's enemies. Being young
man, he had not uttered a word; but
Mirabean, he says, looked nae full IL
the face with his eyes Of wickedness and
genius, and, laying his broad hand OF
my shoulder, said, They never vii
forgive my superiority"
Riehelieu was as vain as he was am
bilious. Upon his personal activity hs
especially prided himself. A noblemaT
Of the house Of Grammont one day
found him employed in jumping, and
with the SAVIOR faire Of FrenchmaI
and a courtier, offered TO jump againsi
him. He suffered the Cardinal to iumI
higher, and soon found himself re
warded with an appointment.
At his trial Danton, in reply TO th'
ordinary Court question, said: :" Ny
name IS Danton, a name tolerably wei
known in the revolution; my abode vii
soon be humiliation, but / shall live IN
the pantheon of history"
In his song 10 My Dear Love" tn,
Marquis Of Montrose wrote:
III make thee famous by my pen,
And glorious by my sword.
Montaigne told the King Of France
when the latter informed him that b.
liked his essays, Then your Majesty
must needs ike me; my book is my
self. F."
When he was asked how many greai
writer's there were in the age Of Loui;
XVI, Boileau answered: Il onls
know objectionable, Moliere ane
myself
Walt Whitman once wrote: " Di
vine am /, inside and out. / make
holy whatever / touch or am touched
FRAN.
When Louis XIV died, Rousseau sadly
olTerved; There were two despised
nftn in France, the king and /. am
now alone.